Biografia del autor.

About the author
Roald Dahl’s father moved to England from Norway in
the 1900s. His wife died leaving him with two children,
a young boy and a daughter. He moved back to Norway
where hemarried Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg in 1911.
The whole family moved to Wales where they had five
more children.
Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on
13 September in 1916. His father’shealth deteriorated
when his eldest sister died of pneumonia. His dying wish
was to have his children educated in English Schools,
which was what his wife did. All the children were sent to
ElmTree School. When Roald was seven he was sent to
Llandaff Cathedral School. His childhood there was not
very happy as he shows in Boy. He was later sent to Saint
Peter’s Preparatory School inWeston. His reality at school
is thoroughly described in Boy. He was good at sports but
he was at the bottom of his class academically speaking.
One of his main hobbies was reading, and some of hisfavourite novelists were the adventure writers Rudyard
Kipling, Captain Marryat, H. Rider Haggard, and
G. A. Henty. Their books emphasized a kind of heroism
that would later influence bothDahl’s life and his own
writing.
After completing his education at Repton, he first worked
for the Shell Oil Company in Nairobi and at the start of
the Second World War he joined the Royal AirForce. He
served as a fighter pilot in Africa and was injured in an air
crash. In 1942 he went to Washington as a military official
and began to have success as a writer. His first collection ofshort stories, Over to You, were published in the Saturday
Evening Post in 1946. In 1953 Dahl married Patricia Neal,
an American actress and they had five children. Many of
his famous children’sstories came from stories that he had
invented for his own children. His collections of stories
include Someone Like You (1953), Kiss, Kiss (1960) and
Switch Bitch (1974). A number of these...